AN APPLE ORCHARD SURVEY OF ORLEANS COUNTY, NEW YORK. 491 



TABLE 25. 

 Classification of yields. 



TABLE 25 Concluded. 



Markets. The characteristic feature of the apple industry in Wayne 

 county is the evaporator ; in Orleans county it is the sorting-table. In 

 Wayne county a large part of the crop goes to the evaporator without 

 sorting out the best apples ; in Orleans county too much of it is barreled. 

 Few, if any, farmers in Orleans county run their own evaporators. This 

 may partly explain the low price paid for apples to be evaporated (com- 

 pare table 27 with table 44 in Bulletin 226), but the difference is largely 

 due to the fact that in Orleans county only the culls and drops are usually 

 dried. It seems that each county might learn much from the other. 

 Wayne county should spray better and then sell more of the crop in 

 barrels. Orleans county should sort much more closely and then keep 



